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Good find.
Penny hasn't dropped for him yet has it.
If it does he will be one hell if a player, if it doesnt then he's going to spend his career sitting on the bench or bobbing around the lower reaches of the prem. (Still minted of course so not the worst thing ever)

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At times there were so many men on Zaha it looked like a Benny Hill sketch

His best position is that sort of Lampard position, attacking midfielder that can get the ball already facing the goal and not have to defend too much. We won't see the best of him until he's afforded that but we can't really afford to mess around with the formation when everyone clearly knows their roles in the system we're playing right now. If we manage to get really comfortable points wise maybe Roy will change things up. Still a good loan signing, one of our best in a while.

He’s certainly got better as the season has gone on - you can see he’s still learning about when to release the ball. Him behind Benteke with Wilf and Townsend on the wings would be great stuff.

However, lack of another striking option has left Roy with little choice but to push Wilf up there with him.

I would say the opposite, he was our best player early in the season, but seems to have dropped off since his England Debut where the media waxed lyrical about him.

His tempo seems abit slow for how Palace play. Early in the season he was all over the pitch and imposing himself physically but that hasnt been happening recently. Maybe his spell out the side will help him realise he needs to work to earn his place.

People on here (even well-informed ones like Woosie), are too quick to make judgements on young players, mostly negative. Wilf was deemed a candidate for release. It's so difficult to judge. Opinion on R L-C, Jairo and T F-M has been all over the place depending on their last game.
We have a pretty decent and experienced staff at the moment. We need to trust their judgement.

Agree - he's played 38 games for the Chelsea/Palace senior teams in 4 seasons. He's still learning. I think he'll be a little bit of a late developer due to that lack of games, but if he stays at a club that keeps playing him, in a couple of seasons he'd likely be a very good player. With Barkley seemingly on his way to Chelsea, if the staff at the club like what they see, it'd be nice if we could push on, finish high up the table and try and sign him in the Summer.

Good find.
Penny hasn't dropped for him yet has it.
If it does he will be one hell if a player, if it doesnt then he's going to spend his career sitting on the bench or bobbing around the lower reaches of the prem. (Still minted of course so not the worst thing ever)

A fair few of us ( myself included) have moaned about his lack of defending /movement but with his back problems coming alight I wonder if itís effecting him quite a bit and he has to maybe choose his moments? Back pain is a bloody awful thing to suffer.